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These boys were members of the Rice Memorial High School first graduating class in 1959. I was also in this class. We began high school at Cathedral High School, and in our senior year, we moved to Rice.
Left to right: Bobby LaMothe, Jack Sterzenberger, Bobby Halpin, Roger Vachereau, Roger Rainville, Eddie Mercaldo, Tommy Hayes, Tommy Luck.

- Monica Simon Farrington

Oops! I misspelled Jack's last name. It should have been Sturzenberger. Sadly, as far as I know, we have lost three of these guys.
Robert Halpin, September 12, 1941 - May 16, 1998 (cancer).
Dr. Jack Sturzenberger, October 18, 1941 - March 22, 2012 (rheumatoid arthritis)
Edward Mercaldo, August 19, 1941 - November 19, 2013 (cancer).
Posted July 14, 2014 by Monica Simon Farrington.

- Monica Simon Farrington

Sadly, Thomas Carl Luck, June 3, 1941 to November 3, 2002 (complications from diabetes according to Burlington Free Press obit of 12/2/2002)